MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE, iS'-^ 



reigners and criminals, enliiled from jails, and 

 induced to enter for fear of vvorfe confequences, 

 the due recompenfe of their crimes, I thir^k my 

 readers will agree with me, that the reins of difci- 

 pline ought to have been held with a ftronghand„ 

 A continuation of mutinous behaviour, eve- 

 ry day more daring and aggravated, obliged 

 CaprainWilcocks to addrefs Major General Fox, 

 who had fent the detachment on board. 



A.s the orders which the General had fent on 

 board, were excellently well calculated for th^ 

 fafety of the fliip, and tne regulation of the 

 troops ; thefe flagrant acts of mutiny induced 

 him to acquaint the Duke of Portland with 

 Captain Wilcocks's letter ; a written declaration, 

 alluded to in Mr. Black's letter already quoted, 

 •which I had made, was alfo tranfmitted to his 

 Grace; and which affords an honourable teflimo- 

 nial, that however my character might other- 

 wife have fuifered, as a foldier it ftill remained 

 unfpotted. 



The Duke immediately ordered Lieutenant 

 Colonel Grofe, the Commander of the New 

 South Wales Corps, to Torbay, to examine into 

 the nature and accuracy of the complaint. 



It is not perhaps improper for the informa- 

 tion of fuch of my readers as are unacquainted 

 with military afairs, to obferve, that it is a 

 Handing order on board tranfports, that no 

 lights are to be fuffered, no tobacco to be 



imoaked. 



